John Fleming

John Fleming (5 July 1951-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-LA 4) from 3 January 2009 to 3 January 2017, succeeding Jim McCrery and preceding Mike Johnson.

Biography
John Fleming was born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1951, and he served in the US Navy from 1979 to 1982. He then pursued a medicial career in California and South Carolina before establishing a practice in Minden, Louisiana. He came to own 36 Subway sandwich shops in north Louisiana and Fleming Expansions LLC, and he entered politics in 2008 when he was elected to the US Congress as a Republican Party member. In 2016, he was defeated in his run for David Vitter's vacant seat in the US Senate, and he left the Congress.